bnxt_en: Call firmware to approve the random VF MAC address.

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After generating the random MAC address for VF, call the firmware to
approve it.  This step serves 2 purposes.  Some hypervisor (e.g. ESX)
wants to approve the MAC address.  2nd, the call will setup the
proper forwarding database in the internal switch.

We need to unlock the hwrm_cmd_lock mutex before calling bnxt_approve_mac().
We can do that because we are at the end of the function and all the
previous firmware response data has been copied.

Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <michael.chan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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Michael Chan 2016-09-19 03:58:06 -04:00 • committed by David S. Miller

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drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c

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